Now that former Everett school superintendent Fred Foresteire is out of a job and facing charges for allegedly indecently assaulting three women, his former employees are speaking out about his bullying behavior.

At WBUR, reporter Max Larkin has dug into the troubling legacy of the man they called Triple F, who led the district for almost 30 years before resigning in December in the face of sexual harassment allegations.

Teachers were barred from bringing coffee into school, maternity leave was scrutinized by the superintendent himself, and Foresteire allegedly let it be known that he preferred women to wear their hair down, and wear skirts or dresses, high heels, and pantyhose.

Foresteire was an outsized presence in Everett. When state lawmakers visited Everett High School for budget hearings in recent years, Foresteire was there to greet them, eager to show off his students who provided classical musical performances for the visiting budget-writers. Foresteire also publicly clashed with Stephen “Stat” Smith, the former House lawmaker from Everett who pled guilty to federal charges of voter fraud six years ago.

The district he led performed pretty well on MCAS tests, reports Larkin, and the football team took home a dozen state championships over the past two decades.

Foresteire’s departure represented another victory for the #metoo and #timesup movements to remove those facing credible charges of sexual harassment from positions of power.

Years before those movements sprang to life in the fall of 2017, another Everett power-player fended off multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

In 2014, The Boston Globe reported that Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria allegedly groped a woman who came to his office for help. Among three other women who accused DeMaria of sexual harassment was a city employee who said the mayor asked her for oral sex. DeMaria denied the accusations and remains in office after winning re-election unopposed in 2017.

The city is also the site of the planned Encore Boston Harbor, a casino resort dreamed up by Steve Wynn, who resigned from his casino empire after allegations of sexual harassment and rape were surfaced by The Wall Street Journal. Wynn also denies those charges.

The fate of the casino is in the hands of the state Gaming Commission, which will determine whether Wynn Resorts can keep its gaming license following the revelations about the company’s founder.

The future for Everett’s schools is also unclear. WBUR reports that School Committee member Frank Parker told a group of concerned parents that the district will work with the Massachusetts Association of School Committees to run an open search for a good candidate by the end of the year.

“What I tell people is we’re going to enter a period of enlightenment: more openness, more communication,” Parker said.

ANDY METZGER

BEACON HILL

The House budget leaves some big education and tax decisions until later. (CommonWealth)

Budget notes: Beacon Hill is assuming the Wynn Resorts casino will open on time, even if the Massachusetts Gaming Commission hasn’t given the green light yet. … A $30 million Band-Aid for nursing homes….The business-friendly House backs price regulation of some drugs….Medicare savings for 25,000 seniors….Reproductive health funding…..Restaurant promotion. (CommonWealth)

The budget proposal includes some provisions to rein in the Massachusetts Cultural Council, whose spending practices have been spotlighted repeatedly by the Boston Herald.

As in Massachusetts, film tax credits have become an untouchable “third rail” in Georgia politics, but recent abortion legislation is causing a backlash among some in Hollywood. (Governing)

MUNICIPAL MATTERS

A study done by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council recommends a consolidated planning and development department for Lynn. (Daily Item)

WASHINGTON/NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police at the Ecuadorian embassy in London where he had been living since 2012 after the Ecuador government withdrew the asylum status it had granted him. (New York Times)

ELECTIONS

Elizabeth Warren reported raising $6 million in the first quarter of 2019, an impressive haul given her decision to eschew large-dollar fundraising events, but a figure that still puts her toward the back of the top-tier pack among Democratic candidates. (Boston Globe)

South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg, who will formally announce as a Democratic presidential candidate for president, is increasingly taking aim at fellow Hoosier Mike Pence. (Washington Post)

Braintree Mayor Joseph Sullivan says he will not be seeking reelection after 12 years leading the town. (Patriot Ledger)

EDUCATION

Some of the wealthy parents charged in the college admissions scandal are petitioning to have a different judge hear their case in federal court in Boston, an effort to bend things to their advantage that a Globe story suggests echoes with the privilege-seeking gaming of the admission system that has them in court to begin with.

E! News reports that Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli, two defendants in the college admissions scheme, have retreated inside their mansion where they are reckoning with the possibility of serving time behind bars.

Katie Bouman, a recent graduate of MIT, came up with an algorithm to stitch together data from eight synchronized radio telescopes to produce the world’s first ever image of a black hole that is 55 million light years away. (WBUR) MIT’s Haystack Observatory in Westford played a key role in crunching the massive reams of data that produced the image. (Lowell Sun)

The universal language of mathematics has given children more confidence to learn English at James B. Congdon Elementary School in New Bedford, according to the school’s principal, Darcie Aungst. (WGBH)

HEALTH/HEALTH CARE

Researchers at Boston University say they have developed a test that may be able to detect chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in the living. A definitive diagnosis of the condition, which has been linked to brain damage and premature in death in NFL players, has only been possible until now via an autopsy. (Boston Globe)

Boston Children’s Hospital is suing a Saudi prince for $3.5 million, saying he is reneging on a pledge to cover the costs of care for a very sick Saudi child whose been treated at the hospital since November 2017 for a rare genetic condition. (Boston Globe)

TRANSPORTATION

After taking heat from the chairman of the MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board, agency officials make a quick fix to the capital funding figure for the proposed subway line connecting the Red and Blue lines. (CommonWealth)

The Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority has chosen Vancouver-based Marine Learning Systems Inc. to equip the boat line with its first learning management system, which will offer training to crews on land and at sea. (Cape Cod Times)

ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT

A decision by the state Energy Facilities Siting Board on Vineyard Wind’s high-voltage cable landing on Barnstable’s southern shore has been moved to May, two months later than anticipated for the tightly scheduled offshore wind project south of Martha’s Vineyard. (Cape Cod Times)

CASINOS

MGM is hoping to boost disappointing numbers at its Springfield casino with its big ad on Fenway Park’s left field wall. (Boston Globe)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/COURTS

In a new court filing, Robert Kraft’s lawyers say he would suffer “irreparable harm” if surveillance video of him at the strip-mall spa where he’s accused to paying for sex is released. (Boston Globe)

Jose Baez of Holyoke is accused of buying discounted EBT from cardholders and using them to purchase $250,000 worth of food for his wife’s restaurant. (MassLive)

Bill Forry, the editor of the Dorchester Reporter, has an interesting story about Serge Georges, the chief justice of the Dorchester District Court.

Harold Wentworth, who dumped an illegally caught headless tuna in some woods in 2017, has allegedly retaliated against one of the witnesses to that crime by dumping the person’s fishing gear into Pigeon Cove and cutting his lobster trawls. (Gloucester Daily Times)

MEDIA

Justin Ray of the Columbia Journalism Review has a beef with Captain America’s (Chris Evans) both-sides website idea called A Starting Point.